Courses
ENGLISH 286: ASIAN AMERIAN LITERATURE
ENGLISH 563: SEMINAR IN THEMES AND MOVEMENTS
TOPIC: COSMOPOLITANISM IN MODERN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
ENGLISH 280: WOMEN WRITERS
TOPIC: ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS
ENGLISH 460: LITERATURE OF AMERICAN MINORITIES
TOPIC: GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Teaching Interests
Postcolonial Literature, Asian American Literature; Empire and the English Novel; Immigrant Literature; Globalization and Culture; Diaspora Theory and Fiction; Feminist Theory.
Specializations
Globalization and Culture; Ethnic Studies; Postcolonial Studies; Feminist Theory; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century English literature; American Orientalism; Transnational Cultural Studies; Racial and Sexual Formations; Legal Discourse.
Publications
Sexual Naturalization (Stanford UP, 2004) Winner of 2005 Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award.
“The Campaign for Fair Trials Abroad: Long-Distance Nationalism and Post-Imperial Anxiety,” in Just Advocacy: Human Rights, Transnational Feminism, and the Politics of Representation ,” (Rutgers University Press, 2005).
“The Postmodern Subaltern: Globalization Theory and the Subject of Ethnic, Area, and Postcolonial Studies,” in Minor Transnationalisms , (Duke UP, 2005).
"Morphing Race into Ethnicity: Asian Americans and Critical Transformations of Whiteness,” ( Boundary 2, 2001).
“American Nationhood as Eugenic Romance: D. W. Griffith’s Broken Blossoms ,” ( Differences, 2001).
Work in Progress
Two book-length studies, one on the changing configurations of ethnicity within globalization, and the other an edited interdisciplinary anthology on the South Asian diaspora.
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